Peace Not War :: Volume Two (2-discs)

The second Peace Not War album redefines protest music for the twenty-first century: non-stop funky beats on one disc and fat guitars on the other, with deep and inspiring lyrics throughout. From the Peace Not War website (http://www.peace-not-war.org/shop/volume-2.php): The past three years have provoked the most prolific period of protest music in history, widely heard thanks to computer and Internet technology - first designed by the American military and now crucial tools used by activists to organise globally. The hundreds of anti-war song submissions for this new compilation demonstrate the power of "bedroom studio" technology. Some of the low-budget recordings blew away the producers and were selected for the compilation ahead of "signed" musicians. This 2 DISC double album was produced in London by a few musicians and activists with a small but international network of volunteers. The lyrics are radically critical of the Bush-Blair-Howard war machine, but consistently insist on peaceful forms of resistance. The CD cover is purple and green - the colours of the Greenham common Women's Peace Camp - to symbolise nonviolence.